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Civilization is vastly overrated.

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Patricia Briggs
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 28
Novelist
Writer
Butte
Montana
Vastly
Overrated
Civilization

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The Elders were closer to the Maker of All Things and should be deferred to whenever they made their will known.
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My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for modern audiences until they bore only a nodding acquaintance with the originals, but were released as 'authentic Indian stories' when they were, in fact, nothing of the kind.
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Nothing says you're sorry like a dead bunny.
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I don't break I bounce.
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Then he'd come back home and found out that war didn't cause fear- love did.
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I've been a storyteller all my life. When I was in high school, I used to amuse myself by driving through the woods at night and see how long it would be before I scared the pants off my friends - and if I could do it before I scared myself.
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Just as I’ve always known there are monsters in the world, monsters and things even more evil, I’ve always known that it is God who keeps evil at bay.
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Love thy enemies, it says in the scriptures. My foster mother always added, At the very least, you will be polite to them.
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It was complicated. I understood it, mostly, but I had to think a little sideways to do it.
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Stefan: Indian with a dot, not a feather.
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A man's immortality can be found in his children.
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If she kept wondering about how much of her life Bran engineered, she’d end up on a funny farm knitting caps for ducks.
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